Happy Birthday Newman

In honor of John Henry Newman’s 200th birthday today government offices are closed, many of us have the day off, and Fr. Juan Vélez reflects in our second  On the Square essay on what Newman can teach “the average person striving to live a Christian life in a secular world.”

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